Donald Martin (bishop)

Donald Martin (6 October 1873 – 6 December 1938) was a Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1919 to 1938.

[1] Born in Salen on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, Scotland on 6 October 1873.

He studied at the Royal Scots College, Valladolid from 1899 to 1905 where his uncle, David McDonald, was rector.

[2] He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles by the Holy See on 2 April 1919, and consecrated to the Episcopate on 11 June 1919 at Oban.

[3] The principal consecrator was John Toner, Bishop of Dunkeld, and the principal co-consecrators were James William McCarthy, Bishop of Galloway and Henry Gray Graham, Auxiliary Bishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.